A graduate of Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute who now teaches at the University of San Francisco, Ross will fashion approximately 1000 building blocks made of mushrooms (using a process he’s developed over a decade of experimentation).

Credits: MacDowell Colony Fellow, Artist in Residence at the University of Western Australia, The Exploratorium and The Headlands Center for the Arts; exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in Russia, Museum of Craft And Folk Art in San Francisco, Newcomb Art Gallery in New Orleans, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and The Exploratorium in San Francisco.

Tattfoo Tan

Projects: 5PM and Nature Matching System

The Nature Matching System is a large-scale mural of 88 pantone colors associated with a fruit or a vegetable (place mats with the grid are available on Tattfoo’s website). As for 5PM, the New York-based artist will construct a chicken coop housing five chickens (aka PMs, or poop machines) outside the museum.

Credits: Annual Award for Excellence in Design for a public design commission in the City of New York; solo exhibitions at Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, Peng Gallery in Philadelphia and Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York.

Jason Torchinsky

Project: Food Truckin’

The Los Angeles-based Torchinsky will create a set of “customizable vehicles” that will allow children to assemble, pack and ship food.

Credits: Machine Project, blogger for Jalopnik.

WORKac

Project: Urban Aqualoop

WORKac is a New York-based architectural firm founded by Dan Wood and Amale Andraos that will build an “interactive installation integrating natural cycles with real food production infrastructure in an innovative form that invites exploration.” The structure will contain “a closed-loop food production system; a functional, aquaponic fish and vegetable farm.”

Credits: Finalist for a National Design Award and in 2008; identified by Icon Magazine as one of the 25 most-influential new architecture firms in the world; projects include the first Edible Schoolyard in New York City with chef Alice Waters, headquarters and retail complex for Diane Von Furstenberg, the master plan for the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cultural District, museum extension for Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, temporary urban farm installation at MOMA’S PS1 Contemporary Art Center and transformable art interiors at New York City’s Children’s Museum of the Arts.